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Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Explore a vast wasteland in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story.

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Release DateApr 14, 2020
Price$ 39.99  Top 2%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)75.7% (mostly positive) / 72.2%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)74.7% / 71.5%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)49.5K  Top 1% / 94.5K  Top 1%
Curators529 reviews  Top 1%
Median Play Time102.9 hours  Top 1%
Play Time per Dollar2.6 hours  Top 10%
Followers119.6K  Top 1%
Owners± 4M  Top 1%
Copies Sold± 1.9M  Top 1%
Gross Revenue ($)± 38.1M  Top 1%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Fallout 76 steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This chart shows Fallout 76's Steam rating and reviews from April 2020 to December 2023. Steam's rating is varying from 79.2% (April 2020) to 71.6% (October 2020).

With 94.5K reviews Top 1%, Fallout 76 is an undeniable major AAA level success. The chart is compatible with a long tailed distribution, which suggests there was a good visibility at launch but that it was not followed by significant updates or discounts.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Fallout 76 and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut chart shows Fallout 76's review languages. The most popular language is English (55%), followed by Simplified Chinese (12%). There is a nice diversity in the reviews, with 28 languages represented. The game is available in 13 languages, which is great.

Time Played

Chart displaying Fallout 76 percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in Fallout 76, showing a comparison between positive and negative reviews. Notice how the time in game reaches a stellar 389 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is 6.7 times less than the median for positive reviews. Some Fallout 76 players left negative reviews after playing for a long time (more than 203 hours for the top 20%), it can be a sign that a part of the fanbase was displeased about the evolution of the game and decided to review bomb it. The Players' feedback section might give some insight about that.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • The world design is great with a lot of cool looking areas to explore.
  • Story is pretty good, maybe not on par with other Fallout’s but it was still interesting.
  • Lots of content. Doing all the quests can easily take 100 hours.
  • Build crafting. Although there are only a few meta options for the ultimate end game build, you can experiment quite a bit along the way and make a lot of different things work.
  • Crafting system is nicely implemented for customizing your gear and very resource cheap.
  • Fair monetization with daily free items and a decent free tier in the battle pass.
  • Huge Beautiful Map
  • Player vendors
  • Human NPCs
  • Building a C.A.M.P is awesome
  • End game grind. After all the quests are done you may want to have an optimal build with the legendary weapons and armor. It is not necessary, but this is the end game content.
  • Repeatable daily quests and activities that you need to do to get resources to be able to craft your perfect build. These become boring real quick.
  • Enemy tankyness. Some enemies are just bullet sponges. Especially large bosses for which you hope there will be meta players around also doing them (in most cases there are).
  • Monthly subscription is very convenient when it comes to having unlimited junk storage and a mobile survival tent. Although not necessary if you don’t plan on grinding the game.
  • Performance. Depending on the area, there are some frame drops. It’s playable but just the overall feeling of the game doesn’t feel smooth, it’s more sluggish. Seems like its just a game engine limitation.
  • Bugs and glitches are still present. Enemies glitching out or even some missions needing to be restarted by changing servers.
  • Game still crashes sometimes for no reason whatsoever.
  • PvP is nonexistent because of all the previous things mentioned.
  • No modding support means community cannot bring fixes and customize the game like previously.
  • Fallout 1st subscription, Absolutely not necessary to buy, but it's still a con that it exists.

These advantages and disadvantages are not meant to provide a fair assessment of the game, but to help developers identify potential improvements. The game's 75.7% rating should be factored in during their evaluation.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of Fallout 76's Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. Moreover, be aware that problems aren't always meant to be solved. Communicating clearly and managing the player's expectations is important too!

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